[quote=“tarburst98, post:3319, topic:5570”]the muzzle brake in game is something like http://i44.tinypic.com/16k4yrs.jpg which has the holes in a specific angle, backwards, to make the gasses push the gun forward like a thruster that goes off when you fire.
while a ported barrel shoots the gasses straight sideways.
aka it’s a quality/complexity thing, a muzzle brake it more complex then a ported barrel and thus better overall.
anyway, my idea is to allow people to craft regular bullets IF they can find weapons factory and attach the bullet making machine into their car. it will be a big beastly machine that would require the boom crane to lift into your car and would take several ‘layers’ up at once, so like, you can’t have a battery or tank in the same place and it has no general cargo storage. but this is only half of what you need. the machine is then loaded with a ‘die’ of the right size to make the bullet you want. and then you use it while having the right components nearby (like in a cargo space next to it) and it produces the bullets you want. so like, 9mm die can make all the different kinds of 9mm rounds (normal, AP, +)[/quote]
I’d be against the manufacturing of Pre-Cataclysm rounds. The equipment used to make cartridges in a weapons factory are, in principle, the same as the hand loading equipment we use, just vastly scaled up. What our hand loaded rounds are missing is fresh brass, and precision manufactured bullets. Most of our primers are also stripped off an existing cartridge, or made from household chemicals. You can make match grade factory quality ammunition on a table press easily, but only with precision measuring equipment, high quality bullets, factory fresh primers, and fresh brass. Anything deviating from this introduces a failure chance, and that’s reflected in the hand loaded increased misfire rate.
If we were to introduce anything to allow more munitions manufacturing, I’d be in favor of either a rare machine or a high level recipe for producing cases. Or even just a somewhat rare location/event containing lots of spent brass. Military last stand/evac coordination building, like a makeshift ops station in a house. Unless there is one and I’ve just never found it. Not having brass wouldn’t be an issue, steel case ammunition exists with drawbacks, but you need a good, powerful press (Or a lot of ingenuity I suppose) to be able to make a casing to specification. This’d allow people who play a hunkered down style to convert ammunition more easily, especially for those who play with mods that allow you to make gunpowder. The ammunition would still be tagged hand loaded, so inferior to the custom stuff.
